bug#227: marked as done (partial-completion-mode and completion-ignore-case combine to make 'read-file-name return a subdirectory when user enters the parent)

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Your message dated Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:02:12 -0400
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and subject line Re: partial-completion-mode and completion-ignore-case combine 
to make 'read-file-name return a subdirectory when user enters the parent
has caused the Emacs bug report #227,
regarding partial-completion-mode and completion-ignore-case combine to make 
'read-file-name return a subdirectory when user enters the parent
to be marked as done.

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> partial-completion-mode and completion-ignore-case combine to make 'read-file-name return a subdirectory when user enters the parent
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 12 May 2008 11:23:25 -0700
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> scenario:  you have a directory (/scratch2/rfn-bug) that contains some number 
> of files, and one sub-directory (/scratch2/rfn-bug/frog).
> You are prompted for a file name via 'read-file-name, you enter 
> "/scratch2/rfn-bug" and that is properly returned, you enter 
> "/scratch2/rfn-bug/" and what is returned is "/scratch2/rfn-bug/frog"
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> To reproduce:
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> in a shell:
>   mkdir /scratch2/rfn-bug
>   touch /scratch2/rfn-bug/a
>   touch /scratch2/rfn-bug/b
>   mkdir /scratch2/rfn-bug/frog
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> Run emacs, and then evaluate:
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>    (setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t)
>    (require 'complete)
>    (partial-completion-mode t)
>    (read-file-name prompt dir dir 'must-match nil 'file-directory-p)
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> When you enter "/scratch2/rfn-bug", you'll get back "/scratch2/rfn-bug"
> When you enter "/scratch2/rfn-bug/", you'll get back "/scratch2/rfn-bug/frog"
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> If read-file-name-completion-ignore-case is nil, this problem does not happen.
> If there are more than one subdirectory, this problem does not happen.
> If the single subdirectory is a link, you get the same behavior.
> Running on linux (as seen below).
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> I built this version of Emacs myself, but did nothing custom, just the
> standard ./configure, gmake, gmake install.  This bug was reproduced running 
> emacs w/out an initialization file.
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> thanks,
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> TJ
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> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2007-06-13 on quartzville
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   partial-completion-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
>   utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> C-p 
> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-e C-b <backspace> 
> <backspace> <backspace> t C-e C-j C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-p C-e C-j / <return> <help-echo> 
> ( r e q u i r e SPC ' c o m p l e t e ) C-j C-p C-p 
> C-p C-p C-e C-j / <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n ( p a r 
> t i a l - c o m p l e t i o n - m o d e SPC t ) C-j 
> C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-e C-j / <return> 
> <help-echo> M-x e m a <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> r e p o <tab> <backspace> o r <tab> <return>
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> Recent messages:
> ("emacs" "-q")
> For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. [2 times]
> Mark set
> prompt here after complete/scratch2/rfn-bug/
> Loading advice...done
> prompt here after complete/scratch2/rfn-bug/
> prompt here after complete/scratch2/rfn-bug/frog/
> Loading emacsbug...
> Loading regexp-opt...done
> Loading emacsbug...done
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> Re: partial-completion-mode and completion-ignore-case combine to make 'read-file-name return a subdirectory when user enters the parent
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:02:12 -0400
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> >   mkdir /scratch2/rfn-bug
> >   touch /scratch2/rfn-bug/a
> >   touch /scratch2/rfn-bug/b
> >   mkdir /scratch2/rfn-bug/frog
> >
> > Run emacs, and then evaluate:
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> >    (setq read-file-name-completion-ignore-case t)
> >    (require 'complete)
> >    (partial-completion-mode t)
> >    (read-file-name prompt dir dir 'must-match nil 'file-directory-p)
> >
> > When you enter "/scratch2/rfn-bug/", you'll get back
> > "/scratch2/rfn-bug/frog"
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> I've checked in a fix into CVS.  Thanks for the bug report.
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